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10/11/2004

Barbara Nitke

Art at Large, New York

Illuminata: Are You Curious?

The exhibition focuses on the concept of abandon, continuing Barbara Nitke's exploration of the alternative sexual world. "The work is about losing oneself into a place beyond control," she says, "giving over to something which is fierce, raw and primitive, in search of a transcendent state."

Acknowledged by critic A. D. Coleman as one of the most important photographers currently exploring human sexuality, Nitke's work of the last two decades also furthers the debate over what is a fit subject for high art.

As publicly funded organizations continue the trend of retreating from controversial subjects, mainstream public acceptance has risen. In a recent issue of Time Magazine, John Cloud observed that "our astonishment at Robert Mapplethorpe's photographs of leather and pain 20 years ago now seems quaint..."

Nitke's monograph Kiss of Fire (Kehrer) was published in October 2003. She is the current president of The Camera Club of New York (founded in 1884 by Alfred Stieglitz) and is on the faculty of School of Visual Arts in New York. Her work has been the subject of one-woman exhibitions in New York, New Orleans, Baltimore, Provincetown and Portland, Maine.

She is also a co-plaintiff with the National Coalition for Sexual Freedom in challenging John Ashcroft, Attorney General of the United States of America, and the federal Communications Decency Act (CDA) which regulates obscenity on the Internet. The case is expected to go to the U. S. Supreme Court.

An opening reception will be held on Thursday, November 11, 2004, 6 - 9:00pm

Gallery Hours: Tues - Sat, 11AM - 6PM
Admission is free.

Image:BARBARA NITKE / Three Men in a Tub
2000 Digital 'C' Print 20x24 ED:1/15

Art @ Large
The Film Center Building
630 Ninth Avenue
No. 707
New York NY

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